I’ve been following the drama of the RustConf Keynote Fiasco (RKNF, per @fasterthanlime) from a great distance - I’m not involved in that community beyond starting to learn the language. But the controversial topic itself Compile-Time Reflection seemed like something interesting I could learn something about. A good ...

Best practices for a robust and maintainable shiny app, a hand on workshop on 21/06. Do you know how to build a basic Shiny web application, but would you like to bring your Shiny development to the next level? Learn from professional experts how to...

Some History The war in Ukraine has spawned yet another disaster, the destruction of the dam across the Dnipro river, upstream from Kherson City. This is an ecologial and humanitarian disaster as vast acres of settlements, farmlands and wetlands have been destroyed. This marks the third time a dam in ...

I’ve updated The Popularity of Data Science Software‘s market share estimates based on scholarly articles. I posted it below, so you don’t have to sift through the main article to read the new section. Scholarly Articles Scholarly articles provide a rich source of information about data science ...

A riddle on uniform spacings!, namely when considering eight iid Uniform (0,1) variates as visiting times and three further iid Uniform (0,1) variates as server availability times, with unit service time, the question being the probability a server is available for a ninth visiting time, T⁹. Which can be decomposed into four ...

"R Python" continued... Geographic SHAP

The 49th G7 summit was held recently in Japan. Ukraine was one of the most critical issues at the meeting; most of the session topic was related to problems stemming from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. One of the problems, aforementioned is food security. Because of the war, energy prices ...

Francisco Rodríguez Sánchez shared with the R Consortium how the R language has changed and improved his work as a computational ecologist, leading him to become a passionate advocate, professional,... The post Bridging Ecology, Statistics, and Data Science with R for Biodiversity and Climate Change Research appeared first ...